Title :
Comprehensive review for Arabic handwriting and printed characters recognition
Author :
Aburas, Abdurazzag A. ; Rehiel, Salem Ali
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Comput. Eng., Int. Islamic Univ. Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
Abstract :
The characteristics of the Arabic character (handwritten or printed) make great challenge in the field of automatic optical character recognition OCR in terms of accuracy and recognition rate. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the latest techniques and methods have been proposed and their results. The characteristics of the handwriting Arabic characters are also discussed in more detail. Finally, a new method based on image compression is proposed to overcome the traditional OCRpsilas problems as well as to achieve both higher accuracy and higher rate.
Keywords :
data compression; handwritten character recognition; natural language processing; optical character recognition; Arabic character; Arabic handwriting; image compression; optical character recognition; printed character recognition; Character recognition; Intelligent systems; Arabic character; OCR; handwriting; image compression; recognition accuracy;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent and Advanced Systems, 2007. ICIAS 2007. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kuala Lumpur
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1355-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1356-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICIAS.2007.4658483
